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We describe a new scenario for the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs). In the early Universe, the long-range forces mediated by the scalar fields can lead to formation of halos of heavy particles even during the radiation-dominated…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-28 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko

Primordial black holes (PBHs) could account for all or part of dark matter, as well as for some LIGO events. We discuss the spins of primordial black holes produced in different cosmological scenarios, with the emphasis on recently…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-06 Marcos M. Flores , Alexander Kusenko

Primordial black holes (PBHs) from the early Universe have been connected with the nature of dark matter and can significantly affect cosmological history. We show that coincidence dark radiation and density fluctuation gravitational wave…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-08 Guillem Domènech , Volodymyr Takhistov , Misao Sasaki

Primordial black holes (PBHs) produced in the early Universe have attracted wide interest for their ability to constitute dark matter and explain the compact binary coalescence. We propose a new mechanism of PBH production during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-17 Jing Liu , Ligong Bian , Rong-Gen Cai , Zong-Kuan Guo , Shao-Jiang Wang

In this paper we review the possible mechanisms for the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) during a slow-reheating period {in which the energy transfer of the inflaton field to standard model particles becomes effective at slow…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-07 Luis E. Padilla , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Tadeo D. Gomez-Aguilar , Karim A. Malik , Gabriel German

In this article, we calculate the mass distribution of primordial black holes (PBHs) formed in the matter-dominated (MD) era by the peak theory. We apply the Zel'dovich approximation to track the nonlinear evolution of overdensities and…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-09-03 Weitao Ye , Yungui Gong , Tomohiro Harada , Zhaofeng Kang , Kazunori Kohri , Daiki Saito , Chul-Moon Yoo

The detection of gravitational waves from mergers of tens of Solar mass black hole binaries has led to a surge in interest in Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) as a dark matter candidate. We aim to provide a (relatively) concise overview of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-25 Anne M. Green , Bradley J. Kavanagh

The Reheating process at the end of inflation is often modeled by an oscillating scalar field which shows a background dust-like behaviour, prompting the analysis of gravitational collapse and black hole formation in this era to be…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Luis E. Padilla , Juan Carlos Hidalgo , Karim A. Malik

We present a novel \textit{gauge-invariant and minimal} formation mechanism of primordial black holes (PBHs) in first-order phase transition (FOPT) and domain walls (DW) separately. This is based on the first-order tensor perturbations,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-20 Utkarsh Kumar , Anish Ghoshal

We study the evolution of primordial black holes (PBHs) in an adiabatic FLRW universe with dissipation due to bulk viscosity which is considered to be in the form of gravitational particle creation. Assuming that the process of evaporation…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-22 Subhajit Saha , Abdulla Al Mamon , Somnath Saha

We revise primordial black holes (PBHs) production in the axion-curvaton model, in light of recent developments in the computation of their abundance accounting for non-gaussianities (NGs) in the curvature perturbation up to all orders. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-28 Giacomo Ferrante , Gabriele Franciolini , Antonio Junior Iovino , Alfredo Urbano

Inflation provides a suitable environment for the formation of Primordial Black Holes(PBHs). In this article, we examine the formation of primordial black holes in the Mutated Hilltop inflation model coupled with the Einstein-Gauss-Bonnet…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-01-06 Yogesh , Abolhassan Mohammadi

If primordial black holes (PBH) are present in the early universe, their contribution to the energy budget grows relative to that of radiation and generically becomes dominant unless the initial abundance is exponentially small. This black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Ian Holst , Gordan Krnjaic , Huangyu Xiao

Primordial black holes (PBH) have been shown to arise from high peaks in the matter power spectra of multi-field models of inflation. Here we show, with a simple toy model, that it is also possible to generate a peak in the curvature power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-01 Juan Garcia-Bellido , Ester Ruiz Morales

In this work, we study the evolution of Primordial Black Holes within the context of Loop Quantum Gravity. First we calculate the scale factor and energy density of the universe for different cosmic era and then taking these as inputs we…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-06-03 Debabrata Dwivedee , Bibekananda Nayak , Mubasher Jamil , Lambodar Prasad Singh

We investigate primordial black hole (PBH) formation in a cosmological scenario where curvature perturbations follow purely quadratic non-Gaussianity, $\zeta = A(\phi^2-\langle\phi^2\rangle)$, arising from tachyonic instability in…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 He-Xu Zhang , Mei Huang

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a fascinating candidate for being the dark matter, albeit one which has been heavily constrained. This review presents an in depth look at those observational constraints, particularly at their nuances and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-31 Marc Oncins

We update the constraints on the fraction of the Universe that may have gone into primordial black holes (PBHs) over the mass range $10^{-5}\text{--}10^{50}$ g. Those smaller than $\sim 10^{15}$ g would have evaporated by now due to Hawking…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Bernard Carr , Kazunori Kohri , Yuuiti Sendouda , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

In this paper, we investigate the production of primordial black holes (PBHs) during the radiation-dominated era. The collapse of significant density perturbations originating from large primordial scalar fluctuations generated during…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-22 Brahim Asfour , Farida Bargach , Yahya Ladghami , Ahmed Errahmani , Taoufik Ouali

A cosmological model in which primordial black holes (PBHs) are present in the cosmic fluid at some instant t=t_0 is investigated. The time t_0 is naturally identified with the end of the inflationary period. The PBHs are assumed to be…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2009-01-14 I. Brevik , G. Halnes